M: So you don’t want be alive after Butter dies and you don’t want him to die first and leave you without him?

P: Yeah. And I just don’t want to know he dies.

M: Wow, Peanut. That’s a really important idea you thought about.

Holy F—ing Long Maternal Cry Later (After He Wasn’t Looking), Batman! So sweet that you love your baby brother. So not going to be that completely pure ever again. And thanks (not) for the reminder of our collective mortality, dude!

Good point, Falling…P always chooses the stories. I haven’t been allowed to choose stories, songs, or snacks for years now. Where the Wild Things Are and Green Eggs and Ham, which quite unusual for him. He’s usually more eclectic. Guess the whole death reminder brought him back to basics. ;-)

Macondo and Fie wow indeed.
susWOW I appreciate the sleep wishes. Thank the ancients for polytheism, right?
TKW it always catches me off guard, but there it is, entirely him.
Maria, I do, I do. Thanks!
Jen is this the “I wish you were” discussion or the “what happens after” discussion?
Undine, would that there were toddler philosophy classes cuz I’d love to in his salon.
ck, i’ve thought that before. But they’d be naked and covered in stickers, not philosophizing, right?

Papaya is insistent that we are all going to come back together (probably as a family of sea turtles), which I think is how she is dealing with the terrifying concept of losing each other. This whole mortality-discussion thing is not for ninnies, eh?

You know that is funny. Because it sounds just like a conversation I’ve had multiple times with Nino. He is convinced that we all need to die at the same time too. But then he lists in order of age who is going to die first and last throughout our family (this is the way it makes sense to him, apparently), with much sadness. It totally breaks my heart.